Extended reading read the article about the attack on perl harbour . hell comes to pal harbour IT was sunday december the seventh, nineteen nineteen forty eight one. As usual, the wake up call came at five forty five AM. The men board the warship U. S. S. Orizzont stretched, invoke their eyes. Simon Russell Warren was awakened by corta master lucentio. Russell made his bed and helped clean the huge shed room. The men went to the washroom dressed in their uniforms and SAT down to breakfast. IT looks like IT would be a Normal day on board the ship, but nobody at their breakfast at that moment. There was a huge crashing sound from above. The ship shook violently, and the men looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of japanese plane circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on pal harbour. The scream of their engines was defining as bombs. Thunder all around. Clouds of black smoke rose into the sky and hung over the sea. Russell felt his blood freeze, but he quickly came to himself and rushed up to the deck. Moments later, a bomb hit the U. S. S, arizona, and Russell was thrown more than one hundred meters across the ship. He suffered serious burns on his hands, arms and legs and watched many of his friends die. Li, meanwhile, also standing on the deck, was lucky not to be thrown into the sea with only minor injuries. He was able to help others, who was severely done an terrible pain. After receiving the order to abandon ship, li saved more men from the water dragging into the lifeboat. In the chaos and confusion after the attack, the U. S. Navy sent a message to his family that li had been killed in the attack. Luckily, he was able to get in touch with them before the message arrived. Despite his remarkable actions, li did not think that he was a hero. The heroes are the ones that gave their lives that day, he said. Rush snell was saved from the water, but he was badly burned, pleading heavily. Fortunately, he was taken to hospital and survived for many years. Russell refused to talk about what happened that morning, describing IT simply as hell, his wife elser said when he opened up later on, he always mentioned the horror of IT. Li and Russell would never forget the terrible scene of the attack, but they were fortunate enough to be among the few survivors from the arizona. Nobody had expected the bombing. Japan had hatch a plot to launch a surprise attack on pal harbour, so the attack began without warning and without declaring war on the united states. The attack destroyed nearly twenty american ships and over one hundred and eighty airplanes. In total, more than two thousand american people were killed and over one thousand others were wounded. That day. More than one thousand people aboard the arizona lost their lives out of thirty seven sets of brothers. Russell and his brother were the only full pair to survive the attack. The surprise attack came as a great shock to the whole nation. The next day, president rose val delivered his famous paul harbor speech, in which he describe december the seventh as a date which will live in in for me, and ask that the U. S. Congress declare war on japan. In response to the attack and the president's address, the united states joined the second world war. Today, the U. S. S. Arizon lies where IT sank in the middle of the pacific ocean. Its location is marked with a memorial shaped like a bridge which crosses the ship. Sunk remains. Each year, more than two million people visit the memorial. They come to see the shadow of the ship at bottom of harbour, to earn about the attack, to show respect for those who had lost their life in the attack, and to pray for world peace. Although about eight decades has passed the attack on pal harbour, one of the dark episodes in american history will never be forgotten.